Wednesday, November 16, 2005

letter no 3 from notes from above ground

Dear Sir,
The earth is beginning to dry up, and that is a blessing
as the digging has been going much easier, but as you might
imagine the mosquito population is way out of bounds. I
realize that they need sustenance too, but it is getting
rediculous. We are all covered with big red welts.. I hope
they don’t carry any disease. I made an interesting
observation this morning while reading the newspaper.. What
page of the newspaper is full of pictures of smiling people.
You guessed it. the obituaries...You would at least think that
some of them would be more then a little pissed off at their
demise, especially when so many of them look so young for
their age. Perhaps all these smiling faces are trying to tell
us that death is not so bad after all. Poor Douglas did it
again... this time he was out sunning himself and looked up
just in time to have one of those damned pigeons shit right in
his eye. He forgot about his prosthesis, and took out his
right eye, and part of his nose. Some people never learn.
I have been attempting to lose weight, and to try to get
in shape. I try to watch what I eat, but all I seem to see is
a blur. Perhaps that is a result of growing up in the
depression. Speaking of depression, I made the mistake of
showing a drawing that I did to a friend, and he said that it
looked like I was in a state of depression when I did it. I
said no I think I was in Iowa. We are getting ready to let up
the kites, It should be glorious. I have constructed an
electric kite that will fly without any wind, the problem is
it requires unusual lengths of extension cord. I have bought
out three hardware stores already. It is certainly worth it
though, not to have to rely on those unpredictable thermals
anymore.
Truly Yours,